The Dehumanization of Art: And Other Writings on Art and Culture

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Pagina 47All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is
interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world. Other styles
must be interpreted in connection with dramatic social or political movements, ...

Pagina 110They still seek for corporeality according to accepted practice. But this no longer
interests them primarily. The object in itself begins to be disregarded and have no
other role than to serve as support and background for the light playing upon it.

Pagina 157Serious economic difficulties begin, the struggle with the rest of mankind begins.
The asperity, the bitterness, the hostility of our mundane environment appear.
This first attack either forever annihilates our heroic resolve to be what we
secretly ...